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Lefteris Hapsiadis (Greek: Λευτέρης Χαψιάδης, 23 October 1953 – 2 October 2023) was a Greek contemporary songwriter, poet, and writer of novels.

His literary work included a plethora of poems, three novels, as well as lyrics for 525 songs (registered with AEPI) in the contemporary Greek rebetika, laïka (pop music) and elafra (light music) genres. He had collaborated with various music composers and had occasionally worked as a record producer. Among those, he had often worked with Christos Nikolopoulos with whom he had had a number of popular records (including Μία είναι η ουσία - One matter counts, and Κάποια, κάπου, κάποτε - Some woman, somewhere, sometime). Together they also created and produced a CD with 12 songs (December 1986), for which they were able to assemble together 11 popular Greek performers, including Giorgos Dalaras, Haris Alexiou, Stratos Dionysiou, Giannis Parios, and Manolis Mitsias. Nikolopoulos performed one of the songs in the CD as well, his first public singing performance ever. The CD was launched as "Τραγούδια για τους φίλους μου" - Songs for my friends. Other quite well known performers of Hapsiadis pop songs were Stelios Kazantzidis, Glykeria and Manolis Aggelopoulos.

Biography

Lefteris Hapsiadis was born in 1953 in Feres, and lived during his early life in Koila, both agglomerations located in the Greek Prefecture (Νομός) of Evros. This is the most north-eastern region of Greece, bordering on Turkey in the east, and Bulgaria in the north. Hapsiadis referred to Koila as his "Paradise on Earth", and he spent a major part of his life there. His family origin is from Pontos; this is the area in the north of present-day Turkey, along its Black Sea coast. Hapsiadis has been loyal to his Pontos origins and he has often collaborated in various artistic initiatives to preserve the cultural heritage of the l

Christos Nikolopoulos was born on 11 July 1947 in Kapsochori, a village in Alexandria (Imathia). His family did not have the necessary financial resources for his studies. The occupation with something professional around music, as his family was already involved in it, seemed to be a one-way street for Christos Nikolopoulos from his young age. For reasons of livelihood and in order to help his poor family, he became professionally involved by playing all over the region of his homeland, in clubs, festivals, weddings, fairs, etc. In 1963, at the age of sixteen, with his father’s wish as his only means of support, he arrived in Athens. On Veranzerou Street and Satovriandou Street in Omonia there was the “Café of the Musicians”. There he met musicians who helped him to play on records of small labels. Stelios Zafiriou, a bouzouki virtuoso, listened to him and suggested that they play together on recordings for larger labels. Soon Christos Nikolopoulos began to become more famous and many people spoke of his “great musical talent”, praising his modesty at the same time. In 1964 he worked for one season where Manolis Angelopoulos, who was described as a great singer of that period, was singing. In 1965, the musician Petros Iatrou introduced him to Stelios Kazantzidis, with whom he worked with during the last years of Kazantzidis’ then performances (1965-1966). They went on tours in America, Germany and all over Greece. Stelios Kazantzidis in the spring of 1966 retired from the clubs and since then he did not appear again (only much later and symbolically now). Later and despite the good relations the two men had in the past, there was a dispute between them over the paternity of some songs, which was widely covered by the media of that time. Christos Nikolopoulos continued his career autonomously, he met and worked with almost all of the rebetters of the era (Vassilis Tsitsanis, Giannis Papa

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